Hypnotherapy is a type of therapy that uses guided relaxation and focused attention (a hypnotic state) to help people make changes in thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. In simple terms, it’s like being deeply relaxed and absorbed—similar to daydreaming—while a trained therapist helps …
The Descent: The Dark Night of the Soul Mystics described a state that looks strikingly like depression: loss of meaning, emptiness, spiritual dryness, isolation, the collapse of former identity. But they framed it as initiation, not pathology. The ego dissolves. Certainty …
Many women learn early how to shrink. To be agreeable. To manage everyone else’s emotions. To hold steady, even when something inside feels unsettled. Trauma doesn’t always come from one dramatic event. It can come from years of adapting; minimizing …
Many high-capacity women in Boulder come to therapy not because they are “falling apart,” but because they are exhausted from holding everything together. Trauma doesn’t always look dramatic. Sometimes it looks like over-functioning. Hyper-independence. Being the steady one for decades. …
What Is EMDR Therapy, and How Can It Help With Trauma? What Is EMDR? EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It’s a structured, evidence-based therapy originally developed to help people recover from traumatic experiences. Today, EMDR is widely …
Tarot cards can provide fresh perspective to a stuck situation. We all have blind spots. And sometimes, despite our best efforts, we simply do not and cannot see the full spectrum of possibilities available to us in any given situation …
What is depth psychotherapy? Depth psychotherapy refers to the process of bringing to light those parts of the self that have been hidden in the unconscious, parts which are often difficult to surface alone. As a therapeutic orientation, it is …
